14/02/2024
It’s been one year since cyclone Gabrielle hit our region and our home.
The sun is shining beautifully today and it’s a little surreal to think this time last year we were in a state of emergency and under water.
I’m some ways it feels like it was a long time ago and in others just yesterday.
The images on social media and television still make me well up with tears and the sound of rain no longer brings comfort.
I feel deeply connected to the soil and land in a way that I find hard to explain in words, a connection formed from working, growing, nurturing the environment around us.
There is a deep seated sadness for the damage to our land that still stays with me.
Over the last year we have worked hard and achieved so much, raised the land, completed the big irrigation projects, built a greenhouse, hosted our first seed sowing workshop with .journal had our first plant sale and then to top it of had the pleasure of hosting the team from when they came to Hawkes bay to do Jacindas wedding!
Feeling very grateful and proud that we have come through a very trying year but I just have to say if it wasn’t for the support of very kind and dear friends then I think we wouldn’t have feared so well!
Forever grateful for sarah and Aila and Astrud who came at just the right time to help!
Thank you so much to the community of people who have supported and helped us this year, it truly has been so so appreciated!